In Dockum in front of the Bonifatiuspark, the statue of Saint Boniface stands on the spot where he was murdered in 754. French limestone sculpture by G. Bolhuis (1907-1979)

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October 5, 2025

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A 2.5-meter-high statue of Boniface next to the Boniface Spring marks the place where Saint Boniface died. A chapel was built from monastery stones near the spring as a place of pilgrimage.

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August 2, 2024

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Boniface, also Boniface, birth name: Wynfreth was one of the most important Anglo-Saxon missionaries and church reformers in the Frankish Empire, bishop, martyr and canonized.

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